Overview

TMS Workflow Studio is a Delphi VCL framework for Business Process Management (BPM). With Workflow Studio you can easily add workflow and BPM capabilities to your application, by allowing you or your end-user to create workflow definitions and running them.

Here are some examples of business process that can be automated by using Workflow Studio:

  • Order management
  • Sales management
  • Hiring process
  • Help desk tasks
  • Sales and marketing tasks
  • Project management
  • Quality checking
  • Warranty management
  • Software deployment
  • Product requirement and specification
  • Expense tracking

Main tasks you can do with Workflow Studio are:

  • Design workflow definitions visually in a diagram
  • Run the workflow definitions
  • Manage tasks generated by the workflows

Rebuilding Packages

If for any reason you want to rebuild source code, you should do it using the "Packages Rebuild Tool" utility that is installed. There is an icon for it in the Start Menu.

Just run the utility, select the Delphi versions you want the packages to be rebuilt for, and click "Install".

If you are using Delphi XE and up, you can also rebuild the packages manually by opening the dpk/dproj file in Delphi/Rad Studio IDE.

Do NOT manually recompile packages if you use Delphi 2010 or lower. In this case always use the rebuild tool.

In this section:

Basic Concepts

How Workflow Studio works and key concepts around workflows and tasks.

Getting Started

Components overview and initial steps to setup Workflow Studio.

Database Structure

Underlying database structure for Workflow Studio.

Creating Workflow Definitions

Diagram objects and features of workflow definitions editor.

User interface windows

Interfaces for creating workflows and managing tasks.

Using Workflow Studio programmatically

How to run some common tasks from Delphi code.

Extending the scripting system

Take advantage of scripts for increasing integration between workflows and your application.